Revolving stand.



PATENTED NOV. 29, 1904.

C. E. GEHRKEN. REVOLVING STAND.

APPLICATION FILED JUNBU. 1904.

. N0 MODEL.

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REVOLVING STAND.

SPECEFCATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,232, dated November 29, 1904.

Application filed .Tune 17, 1904. Serial No. 213,020. (No model.)

Bc it known that I, CHARLEs E. GEHRKn-N, a citizen of the United States, residing at l)etroit, in the county of Vayne and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Im.- provennents in Revolving' Stands, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is a revolving stand or set of shelves particularly suitable for the use of storekeepers for storage and display of goods in packages or cans, and is designed especially to be supported on a counter or the like.

1n the accompanying drawings, wherein the device is illustrated, Figure l is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section, thereof. Fig. 3 is a top plan view.

Referring specifically to the drawings, 6 indicates a counter or suitable support upon which the revolvingstand is mounted. This support has a flat circular track 7 thereon. The bottom board or base of the stand is in dicated at S, and it is provided with a set of ball-casters 9, which roll on the track referred to. The stand is fastened to the counter by a bolt 10, which passes through the base of the stand and through a hole in the counter at the center of the track, where it is fastened by a nut 11 on the under side.

The center post or support of the stand is hollow for the sake of lightness and is made of four pieces of wood, (indicated at 12.) Cue of the pieces has an opening 13 in the lower end thereof, so that the pivot-bolt 10 can be got at. The post or standard so produced is fastened and supported upon the baseboard by metallic anglepieccs, as shown at 14. The shelves are indicated at 15 and 16, the former being long shelves extending' the full width of the stand and the latter being' short pieces located between the projected ends of said long pieces. The latter are supported at the corners by posts 17 and are secured to the central post by angle-brackets 18, which latter are also used to support the short pieces 16. The ends of the short pieces 16 are beveled, as at 19, where they rest upon the similarlybeveled edges of the board 15, whereby a iirm support for the pieces 16 is afforded. The top of the post projects above the top shelf, where it is adapted to support packages or cans so that a pyramidal effect may be obtained.

A stand so constructed will be found very useful and very serviceable for the display of package goods. 1t occupies but little space upon thecounter, and by its rotation access is readily had to all parts thereof.

l'Vhat 1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination with a support having' a circular track thereon, of a rotating stand which travels on the track, said stand having at the center a comparatively large rectangular post which'projccts above the top shelf, a series of long shelves across opposite sides of the said posts and supported thereon, posts at the corners of the stand, supporting said shelves, and a series of short shelves extending across and supported on the remaining sides of the central post and resting at their ends on the inner edges of the long shelves, substantially as described.

Tn testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES E. GEI-TEKEN.

Witnesses:

Jnsslin A. GORDON, ELIZABETH J. Pinon. 

